Cesana v. Johnson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract by a real estate broker to recover a commission of $5,123.66, amounting to one per cent on the gross rent of real estate of the defendant numbered 633 on Washington Street in Boston payable by the W. L. Douglas Shoe Company under a lease from the defendant to that company for twenty years and six months from January 1, 1917, alleged to have been procured by the plaintiff.
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Contract by a real estate broker to recover a commission of $5,123.66, amounting to one per cent on the gross rent of real estate of the defendant numbered 633 on Washington Street in Boston payable by the W. L. Douglas Shoe Company under a lease from the defendant to that company for twenty years and six months from January 1, 1917, alleged to have been procured by the plaintiff. Writ dated April 13,1916. In the Superior Court the case was tried before J. F. Brown, J. At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, which is described in the opinion, the judge on motion of the defendant ordered a…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
This is an action by a real estate broker to recover a commission for services in connection with the leasing of property on Washington Street, Boston, owned by the defendant.. Negotiations with the plaintiff were conducted by the defendant’s husband, Herbert S. Johnson, and it is agreed that he acted as her duly authorized agent. In May, 1914, when the plaintiff’s services *447began, the premises were occupied by the W. L. Douglas Shoe Company, at a yearly net rent of $13,000, under a lease which would expire on January 1, 1917. The plaintiff’s efforts were mainly exercised in endeavoring to…
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